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Title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

Author: Frederick Jackson Turner

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History.--Freeman

NINTH SERIES
XI-XII

The Character and Influence of the
Indian Trade in Wisconsin

_A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution_

BY FREDERICK J. TURNER, PH.D.

_Professor of History, University of Wisconsin_

BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
November and December, 1891

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY N. MURRAY.

ISAAC FRIEDENWALD CO., PRINTERS,
BALTIMORE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE.
I. INTRODUCTION 7
II. PRIMITIVE INTER-TRIBAL TRADE 10
III. PLACE OF THE INDIAN TRADE IN THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA 11
1. Early Trade along the Atlantic Coast 11
2. In New England 12
3. In the Middle Region 18
4. In the South 16
5. In the Far West 18
IV. THE RIVER AND LAKE SYSTEMS OF THE NORTHWEST 19
V. WISCONSIN INDIANS 22
VI. PERIODS OF THE WISCONSIN INDIAN TRADE 25
VII. FRENCH EXPLORATION IN WISCONSIN 26
VIII. FRENCH POSTS IN WISCONSIN 33
IX. THE FOX WARS 34
X. FRENCH SETTLEMENT IN WISCONSIN 38
XI. THE TRADERS' STRUGGLE TO RETAI